The rental industry charity for Ukraine – the UK based Plant and Hire Aid Alliance – is looking for urgent help with the transport of some major donations that it has received.
The first was a donation of 50 pallet loads of toys for its campaign next Christmas, for which it needed to find a warehouse. It has managed to organise the collection and storage for them until they are delivered in December thanks to Travis Perkins, DHL and Lynch Plant and Haulage.
But It has also received the following amazing donations for which it now needs your help to deliver.
They include: 11 pallets of flour, 245 pallets of hospital grade universal and detergent wipes and eight pallets of hospital grade bandages – 264 pallet loads in total.
They need to be transported from, Warrington, Swindon and Ipswich to Kosice in eastern Slovakia at which point Rotary International will take over and co-ordinate their distribution in Ukraine., with the flour going to charity bakeries in front line villages. While the medical supplies will be delivered to hospitals in the Kharkiv region which are treating military and civilian casualties, as well as the children’s hospital and main hospital in Oleksandriya in Southeast Ukraine.
The eight pallets of hospital bandages are in Warrington
The 245 pallets of wipes are in Swindon and
The 11 pallets of flour are located in Ipswich.
The hospital supplies can be double stacked, but that still requires five x 40ft trucks to take them to the Slovakian/Ukrainian border. Each truck will cost £3,500 – or if someone can provide the truck and driver.
Some of the earlier donations The association would very much appreciate any help at all with either providing or contributing to the transport of the donations, even if it is to help move them to a central point in Swindon.
The route and logistics of moving aid into the area is now very tried and tested, with more than 50 articulated truckloads of donations have been delivered over the past two years, with a value of 4.5 million.
The Ukrainian Rotary Club has been first class at providing photographs of the arrival of the aid, as well as its reception and use.
Jeremy Fish of the Alliance said: “The rental and associated industries has so far been fantastic in rally to the aid of the Ukrainian people. It has really demonstrated the good nature of the companies in our sector. It has been a truly collective effort. We are not making any political statements whatsoever, we are simply trying to help those in desperate need and show the rest of the world that we care and that we are a fantastic industry to work in.”
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